Pictures of You

Evie sits in church wishing she could flee the funeral of Oliver Roche, her supposed husband. She doesn’t recognize Oliver’s parents, including her mother-in-law, Gwendolyn, and she can’t remember anything of their life together. She wonders where her parents and best friend, Bree, are. She feels “trapped in some fever-induced nightmare from which [she’s] longing to wake up and can’t” (3).

Evie, at first thinking she has a hangover, wakes in a hospital room in Sydney. She wants her mom and Bree. A nurse informs Evie that the car accident she was in took the life of her husband, Oliver. Evie is surprised and confused to learn that she is married. She doesn’t remember anyone named Oliver. She’s astonished at the sight of her adult body and colored hair. A psychiatrist enters and learns that Evie thinks the year is 2011 and that she is 16 years old. The psychiatrist informs her she is 29 and widowed. Evie confronts “the unbelievable sets of facts that [she] appear[s] to be an adult woman with prescription lenses, fine lines on [her] face, additional pounds on [her] frame, and a dead husband [she] never wanted” (11).